The Gunners Pub

[gp543]

It seems to have all gone a bit weird over there in the past few months. Digging out supporters, claiming some rivalry between N5 and N7, talk of loyalty cards over the summer.

Anyone know what's going on? I usually swerve the place because of the away boyz but hate to see it decline.

[REB]

seems to be always packed still on matchday tbh, on twitter they are always fighting with people and had a bust up with shewore last week but i dont know the ins and outs about what happened.

[DB10GOONER]

I always liked the Gunners pub. The Arsenal memorabilia was cool. Great buzz on match day. Loved the place. Right up until the day of the 2-3 home defeat to the scum. We'd had a great start to the day in there, lashing pints down, singing Arsenal songs, great banter - was a few lads off here in there that day too (GayJay, Fwank, Simon etc). And the then the poxy fucking Away Boyz started playing and drowned the place out. The exodus to the beer garden was Biblical.

Is the Cannon club still going? It was a private members' club across from the Gunners and back in 2002 to about 2005 it was our regular haunt after meeting the owners and being invited in as "guests". Had some great Columbian nights in there!

[nut flush gooner]

Haven't been to the Gunners since we moved stadiums, but this season have started going to the Highbury Barn which does a pucker Sunday Roast.

Sunday just gone I walked past the Gunners, all the windows where blacked out and it looked like a nightclub tbh.

Given I like a bit more comfort these days, and the Highbury Barn has been done up tastefully I will swerve the Gunners from now on. Roast Beef is around £16 but you get loads of food and it is very nice, the beers are around £4.50 a pint, but you know you are getting a proper pint in a clean glass!

[DB10GOONER]

Haven't been to the Gunners since we moved stadiums, but this season have started going to the Highbury Barn which does a pucker Sunday Roast.

Sunday just gone I walked past the Gunners, all the windows where blacked out and it looked like a nightclub tbh.

Given I like a bit more comfort these days, and the Highbury Barn has been done up tastefully I will swerve the Gunners from now on. Roast Beef is around £16 but you get loads of food and it is very nice, the beers are around £4.50 a pint, but you know you are getting a proper pint in a clean glass!

Used to go to the Barn back in the mid to late 90's, Was a nice place even then. And I bumped into my London stalker Ray Winstone there too. Seriously, got to a stage I could not go to London without bumping into Ray fucking Winstone; at the Barn, in Harrods, outside Highbury, down by the London Eye, at Heathrow. Even my missus was asking "what the fuck is going on with Ray Winstone?"

RAY - SERIOUSLY FUCK OFF I'M NOT INTERESTED!!

[nut flush gooner]

Haven't been to the Gunners since we moved stadiums, but this season have started going to the Highbury Barn which does a pucker Sunday Roast.

Sunday just gone I walked past the Gunners, all the windows where blacked out and it looked like a nightclub tbh.

Given I like a bit more comfort these days, and the Highbury Barn has been done up tastefully I will swerve the Gunners from now on. Roast Beef is around £16 but you get loads of food and it is very nice, the beers are around £4.50 a pint, but you know you are getting a proper pint in a clean glass!

Used to go to the Barn back in the mid to late 90's, Was a nice place even then. And I bumped into my London stalker Ray Winstone there too. Seriously, got to a stage I could not go to London without bumping into Ray fucking Winstone; at the Barn, in Harrods, outside Highbury, down by the London Eye, at Heathrow. Even my missus was asking "what the fuck is going on with Ray Winstone?"

RAY - SERIOUSLY FUCK OFF I'M NOT INTERESTED!!

I went to the Barn a few times in the 90s, was much more of a hardcore pub than it is these days. Given how posh and expensive Highbury has become, it's not surprising that it's been done up to reflect that. Our bill was £120 on sunday, and that was only food with a few beers!

Saw Johhny Nelson in there too. Didn't realise he was a gooner.

[Almunia is a clown]

Cannons run out of beer Sunday after the game Quality mob of old school outside

[DB10GOONER]

Cannons run out of beer Sunday after the game Quality mob of old school outside

Was a great spot back in the day. Was a welcoming place to respectful "strays" too.

We went one night (after the 6-1 win against the Saints in 03 - a game that saw not only a Pires hat-trick but also Jermaine Pennant marking his PL debut with a hat-trick as well ). My missus was with me in London for the weekend (me and a couple mates at Highbury, her and her best friend, a London girl, in Harrods). The missus' best friend had her boyfriend Graham with her and he was a Sheffield lad and die hard Wednesday fan. Some here might know him - he was the head barman in the Brownswood for a few years around that time when it had switched back from a scum pub to a Gooner pub - he was a nice bloke and hated scum fans. Had a few decent lock-ins in the Brownswood too back then!

Anyway we all met up after the game and headed for the Cannons. We told Graham to let on he was a Gooner but within minutes the idiot was going around telling people he was Wednesday! Once he clarified he was on the beer with Gooners there was no problems at all from anyone.

I remember another night my dear departed mate Joe asked the couple that owned it could he DJ the sounds and they let him. Cue two hours of Black Sabbath and Deep Purple.

They did politely draw the line however when he started pouring pints for people!

[goonertux]

WIll never forget 'The Gunners' on our most famous night of 26 May 89. Went to most games home and away that year, but just couldnt get a ticket for Anfield. Absolutely rammed, as were all the boozers that night. They only had two small tellys on the wall, and nothing like today's 60" plasmas! I seem to remember the telly slipping when Mickey Thomas wrote himself into folklore, and by the time it was reconnected, the boys were celebrating and the pub lifted off the ground! Covered in booze as everyone just chucked their plastic glasses in the air and then the party continued long into the night around the ground. Remember queuing up to get into one of the minimarkets for more alcohol, only to find all they had left was Tennants Super or Special Brew! Sweet memories.

[nut flush gooner]

WIll never forget 'The Gunners' on our most famous night of 26 May 89. Went to most games home and away that year, but just couldnt get a ticket for Anfield. Absolutely rammed, as were all the boozers that night. They only had two small tellys on the wall, and nothing like today's 60" plasmas! I seem to remember the telly slipping when Mickey Thomas wrote himself into folklore, and by the time it was reconnected, the boys were celebrating and the pub lifted off the ground! Covered in booze as everyone just chucked their plastic glasses in the air and then the party continued long into the night around the ground. Remember queuing up to get into one of the minimarkets for more alcohol, only to find all they had left was Tennants Super or Special Brew! Sweet memories.

What a night that was, I went to pretty much every home game that season and thought we blew it in the last home game vs the wombles. Even nutty's right foot screamer wasn't enough. Decided to watch it at a mates house in Palmers Green, of course we headed straight up to the Blackstock Road on the final whistle. Amazing scenes. Outside the east stand it was rammed with gooners and one nutter managed to climb up scaffolding pretty much up to the top of the stand.

Going back to pubs, there's a few old boys in the T-Bird. I seem to remember stools flying after a home game a few years back.

[Herd]

I drank in pizzadelic and the kings head on sunday ,havent done the gunners or cannons for years ,did the eaglet enkel and george after !

[Perryashburtongroves]

Cannons run out of beer Sunday after the game Quality mob of old school outside

I used to live up the road from the Cannons and liked the fact that the punters used to sit outside on the pavement on garden chairs, having a chat. I would often suggest to the wife that we popped in for a drink on a warm evening but she liked the Woodbine a bit further up Blackstock Road. Used to go in the Highbury Tavern on the way to games but waited all night to get served last time.

[flash gunner]

Used to love the Gunners in the highbury days